With the announcement of Microsoft 365 E7 there’s renewed focus on the Microsoft Agent Factory – a program designed for customers that want to rapidly scale AI adoption in their organisation. It combines the Agent Pre-Purchase Plan, Forward Deployed Engineers, and tailored role-based AI training.
Partners can find resources here: https://bit.ly/4ljI6GK, and the comprehensive FAQ is definitely worth taking a look at.
There are updated (March 2026) Power Platform licensing resources now available. As seen in the Copilot Studio Licensing Guide, the Agent Pre-Purchase Plan once again gets the spotlight, taking the place of Pay-As-You-Go as the recommended offer on page 5 of both the Licensing Guide and Deck. Supplementing this are new references to Agent Commit Units tiers, the currency for combined use of Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, Fabric, and GitHub Copilot services. The original version of the Licensing Deck had a duplicated page, but a second version was swiftly introduced – both can be found in our Licensing Guides Gallery for completionists!
Grab the updated Licensing Guide here: https://bit.ly/4slE0Ae and its sidekick, the (latest) Licensing Deck, here: https://bit.ly/4bkr3Ql.
The Agent Pre-Purchase Plan was launched back in November 2025 to make it easier to buy consumption units for Agents created through Microsoft Foundry and/or Copilot Studio. You buy 20,000, 100,000 or 500,000 Agent Commit Units and then have a year to use them on any of the supported services. What’s new? From February 2026 Microsoft Fabric and GitHub Copilot are added to the list of services that the ACUs can be used on.
This is a good overview article explaining how the Pre-Purchase Plan works with some good diagrams, including the list of supported services: https://bit.ly/4uonAJ0.
Microsoft announce the availability of the Agent Pre-Purchase Plan. This is a new type of Azure Reservation that enables customers to have a single pool of funds that can be used to pay for both Copilot Credits and Microsoft Foundry costs. You buy Agent Commit Units (ACUs) in one of three tiers, with discounted pricing, and then have a year to use the ACUs over a wide range of services.
Find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/3XRbUiZ with information about the tiers and the services covered, and find some useful licensing examples in the Learn documentation here: https://bit.ly/4ahnYBv.